Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.

A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.

It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.He is admired at a distance, but he cannot come near without appearing a cripple.

A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.

To be a man is to be a nonconformist.

An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.